It is not everyday that one learns an entire militia has sworn unbeknownest to obey you

Like a falling star, he descended on the Tarbh Cró, a Cassiline berserker, his sword biting and slashing like a silver snake.

Well, I was living it, but a shared dream half-lived is a hollow thing

True friendship must be akin to romance, I think. only without all the anguish and anxiety.

Night breeds its own sort of anticipation.

I know what you are. I've always known from the beginning, Kushiel's Chosen. It is folly, to make claim on one whom the gods have marked for their own. And unlike the others, I am no fool, to grasp at that which burns to the touch. What you have given..." she raised one hand, palm upward, the garnet seal dangling at her wrist, "... I hold in an open hand.

I can see patterns in events, and behaviors; in mathematics, I follow slower